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Webster 1913 Edition

Self-sufficiency

Selfˊ-suf-fi′cien-cy

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Noun.

The quality or state of being self-sufficient.

Webster 1828 Edition

Self-sufficiency

SELF-SUFFI''CIENCY

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Noun.

[self and sufficiency.] An overweening opinion of one's own strength or worth; excessive confidence in one's own competence or sufficiency.

Definition 2024

self-sufficiency

self-sufficiency

English

Noun

self-sufficiency ‎(uncountable)

The condition of being self-sufficient.

Translations

condition of being self-sufficient

Catalan: autosuficiència f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自給自足 (zh), 自给自足 (zh) ‎(zìjǐzìzú)
Czech: soběstačnost f
Dutch: zelfvoorziening f
Finnish: omavaraisuus (fi) (in terms of physical resources); itseriittoisuus (fi) (mentally)
French: autosuffisance (fr) f, autonomie (fr) f
German: Selbstversorgung (de) f
Greek: αυτάρκεια (el) f ‎(aftárkeia)
Indonesian: swa sembada

Irish: neamhthuilleamaíocht f
Japanese: 自給自足 (ja) ‎(じきゅうじそく, jikyūjisoku)
Persian: اتکای به نفس ‎(ettekâ-ye be nafs)
Polish: samowystarczalność f
Portuguese: autossuficiência f, autonomia (pt) f
Russian: самодоста́точность (ru) f ‎(samodostátočnostʹ), самостоя́тельность (ru) f ‎(samostojátelʹnostʹ), автоно́мность (ru) f ‎(avtonómnostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: fèin-fhoghainteachd f
Spanish: autosuficiencia (es) f
Swedish: självförsörjning c